- Was born on March 3, 1962 in East St. Louis, Illinois.
- She was a track and basketball star in high school.
- Jackie got an athletic scholarship to UCLA where she earned a B.A. in history.
- She won a silver medal in the heptathlon in the 1884 Olympics.
- In the 1988 and 1992 games, she won gold medals.
- She was born into slavery in Ulster County, New York.
- She spoke out against racial oppression that she had endured throughout her childhood.
- In 1850 she published "The Narrative of Sojourner Truth".
- She became a itinerant preacher and traveled around New England.
- By 1851 she was active in the suffrage movement.
- Mae C. Jemison was an astronaut and physician who was born on October 17, 1956.
- She was the first African American woman ever admitted into the astronaut training program.
- On September 12, 1992 she flew into space with six other astronauts on the Endeavour.
- She conducted experiments on weightlessness and motion sickness.
- Mae spent slightly over 190 hours in space.
- Clarence Thomas was born on June 23, 1948 in Pin Point, Georgia.
- For the first few years of his life he lived in a one room shack with dirt floors.
- He was a U.S. Supreme Court justice.
- In 1979, he moved to Washington D.C. and became a legislative assistant.
- In 1982 he became the chairman of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
- He was a famous writer.
- His parents soon separated after he was born on February 1, 1902.
- One of his famous poems were "Shakespeare in Harlem".
- He graduated from high school in Cleveland, Ohio in 1920.
- In his senior year of high school he was chosen as class poet and yearbook editor.
- He was the son of two freed slaves.
- He was called the "first African American inventor".
- After his parents died, he taught astronomy through borrowed books.
- Benjamin grew up on a tobacco farm.
- Benjamin grew up in Maryland.
- He was the first to forcefully articulate the concept of African nationalism.
- Marcus was born in Jamaica on August 17, 1887.
- At the age of 14 he became an apprentice in the printing trade.
- In 1903 he went to Kingston to work as a printer.
- He published a periodical called the Watchman.
- He started his life as a slave and ended it as a respected and world-reowned agricultural chemist.
- George Washington Carver became the kidnap victim of night riders.
- He had responsibility for his own education.
- He wished to become an artist.
- He attended Simpson College.
- Colin Luther Powell served as a national security adviser to Ronald Reagan.
- In 2001 he was confirmed as the Secretary of State.
- He was born in Harlem, New York City.
- In 1962 he met and marrie Alma Vivian Johnson.
- In 1987 he replaced Carlucci as national security adviser.
- He played for the University of North Carolina from 1982 - 1984.
- In 1991, 1992, and 1993, he led the Bulls to NBA championships and was the league's most valuable player in 1991 and 1992.
- He was born on February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York.
- He played for the 1984 U.S. Olympic team.
- In 1998, he led the Bulls to their sixth NBA title of the decade.
- He waged one of the most important legal battles in the history of the United States.
- Dred Scott was born a slave in Southampton County, Virginia in 1795.
- He was employed as a farmhand, stevedore, craftsman, and general handyman.
- In 1832 he was sold for $500 to a surgeon in the U.S. Army.
- Later the surgeon returned with Scott to Missouri.
William Edward Burghardt
- He was the founder and secretary of the Niagra movement.
- Burghardt was part of CRISIS.
- His funeral marked a phenomenon
- William had two children.
- On August 27, 1963 he died.
Muhammad Ali
- He was born on January 17, 1942
- He won 100 out of 108 matches.
- Muhammad Ali was the father of nine children.
- He had parkinsons syndrome.
- When he was 12 he began boxing.
- At the age of seven he began piano lessons.
- He was a famous pianist.
- On July 2, 1918 he was married.
- In 1930 he was separated from his wife.
- At one point in his life he had a band with 18 members.
- He was born on July 2, 1908.
- He was a lawyer, jurist, and associate justice.
- He went to Howard University.
- In his life he won 29 out of 32 civil cases.
- He practiced in Baltimore until 1938.
- She was in the movie the The Color Purple.
- She won the Bay Area Threatre Award for her portrayal of comedienne Moms Mabley in a one-woman show.
- She was an actress and comedienne.
- She married her drug counselor and had a son.
- She has hosted the academy awards three different times.
- Many of her friends that were businessmen were killed and their businesses were destroyed by whites.
- She was an African American journalist.
- Many of her brothers and sisters died of yellow fever.
- She was forcably thrown out of a first class car by a conductor while traveling to school.
- She joined a literary society in Memphis.
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